How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

AKG C 414 B-ULS

Records it appears on · 1

  • Nothing Compares 2 U

    Sinéad O'Connor · I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, 1990

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedAlbum sessions, not stated for this song: Birkett's chosen vocal microphone for O'Connor, picked because it copes with her wide dynamics where a Neumann would have distorted.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Buy the hardware

Current version

AKG C414 XLS

The C414 XLS is the current C414 with the flatter, more neutral voicing; older C414 variants each sound a little different.

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Current version

AKG C414 XLII

The C414 XLII is the current C414 with the brighter voicing that AKG models on the C12 capsule.

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